printer friendly pageHISTORY 332G: When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo
In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that led to the trial of Galileo and looks at multiple perspectives on this signal event in the history of science and religion. Considers the nature and definition of intellectual heresy in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and examines the writings of Galileo's infamous predecessor Giordano Bruno (burned at the stake in 1600). Looks closely at documents surrounding the trial and related literature on Renaissance and Reformation Italy in order to understand the perspectives of various participants in this famous event. Focal point of seminar involves the examination of the many different histories that can be produced from Galileo's trial. What, in the end, were the crimes of Galileo?
HISTORY 333: Reformation, Political Culture, and the Origins of the English Civil War (HISTORY 233)
English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political culture of the ruling elite, emergence of Puritanism, and causes of the Civil War.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Como, D. (PI)
HISTORY 333C: Two British Revolutions (HISTORY 233C)
Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in the late 17th century; changing contours of religious life; the crisis leading to the Glorious Revolution; and the new order that emerged after the deposing of James II.
Last offered: Autumn 2012
HISTORY 334: Enlightenment Seminar (DLCL 324, HISTORY 432A, HUMNTIES 324)
The Enlightenment as a philosophical, literary, and political movement. Themes include the nature and limits of philosophy, the grounds for critical intellectual engagement, the institution of society and the public, and freedom, equality and human progress. Authors include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Diderot, and Condorcet.
HISTORY 337C: Street History: Learning the Past in School and Out (EDUC 356)
Interdisciplinary. Since Herodotus, history and memory have competed to shape minds: history cultivates doubt and demands interpretation; memory seeks certainty and detests that which thwarts its aims. History and memory collide in modern society, often violently. How do young people become historical amidst these forces; how do school, family, nation, and mass media contribute to the process?
Last offered: Spring 2009
HISTORY 339D: Capital and Empire
Can empire be justified with balance sheets of imperial crimes and boons, a calculus of racism versus railroads? The political economy of empire through its intellectual history from Adam Smith to the present; the history of imperial corporations from the East India Company to Wal-mart; the role of consumerism; the formation of the global economy; and the relationship between empire and the theory and practice of development.
Last offered: Spring 2013
HISTORY 33S: Public Knowledge? Propaganda, Censorship, and News in Early Modern England
New technologies of communication inevitably raise questions of access, control, and freedom. With the invention of Guttenberg's press, printing became integral to political life in early modern England during the upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as actors vied to manipulate the printed word. Topics include: visual and written propaganda, censorship, book burning, secret printing, freedom of the press, growth in printed news, coffeehouses, the public sphere, and political debate during the English Reformation, Civil Wars and Glorious Revolution.
Instructors:
Bell, R. (PI)
HISTORY 342A: What is Life? The History of a Question
History of attempts to understand the nature of life and mind by comparing living creatures with artificial machines and material arrangements. Imitations of animal life and human thought and discussions of relations between creatures and contraptions from antiquity onward, with an eye toward providing historical depth to current attempts to simulate life and mind.
Last offered: Autumn 2012
HISTORY 343G: Tobacco and Health in World History (HISTORY 243G)
Cigarettes are the world's leading cause of death--but how did we come into this world, where 6 trillion cigarettes are smoked every year? Here we explore the political, cultural, and technological origins of the cigarette and cigarette epidemic, using the tobacco industry's 80 million pages of secret documents. Topics include the history of cigarette advertising and cigarette design, the role of the tobacco industry in fomenting climate change denial, and questions raised by the testimony of experts in court.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Proctor, R. (PI)
HISTORY 351B: Core in American History, Part II
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Winterer, C. (PI)
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duRivage, J. (PI)
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